Contristados Quotes & Sayings

I have a suggestion for all of those award seekers and blue ribbon hunters. Spend your efforts on making art that connects with people. Awards impress the grandkids but they don't move the gauge on selling your product. Art needs to touch the emotions of the buyer. — Jack White

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. — Mary Wortley Montagu

One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation. — Ted Cruz

Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph. — L.M. Montgomery

In the darkened recesses of the Suburban, my opinion of the vampire rose considerably. There were far worse things than having to drink blood to survive. I could tolerate him, so long as he didn't try to make me his next meal. — Rose Wynters

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. — Frances Farmer

There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group. — Amit Ray

Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves. — Elliot Aronson

You're never so bad you can't have a Savior, no matter how much you've sinned. — Tim Kimmel

Once you begin to recognise the divine gifts in life, you come to see that there are so many. Your life is abundant. — Mooji

Again, as stated above, if we recognize that our particular interpretation and application of Scripture is leading to observable harm, this necessarily means that we need to stop and reassess our course. Scripture, as Jesus read it, needs to lead us to love God, others, and ourselves. If we find that it is leading instead to causing harm then we are getting it wrong. — Derek Flood

Outside, most people knew that decades ago, the religious fundamentalists lost the ability to transform society when they became a political movement. Their boycotts and protests were commonplace, any outcry against anything beyond the narrow range of what they saw as biblically acceptable was dismissed as a knee-jerk reaction. — Sigmund Brouwer

When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part. — Deepak Chopra

When you said I was yours... I meant it — C.M. Stunich

For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future. — Anne Waldman